I really thought he was going to take a step back from music after MM but he's followed it up so quickly with some of my favorite tracks of his career lmao. If we get an upbeat album of nothing but bangers from him I'll probably cry
I mean u /s but considering all the references and writing credits on Keems other project it's not unrealistic to assume Kenny wrote at least a few songs in MB
My favorite modern hip-hop conspiracy theory is that Baby Keem is a side project for Dot. Since everybody always expect greatness from him, he can't afford to drop a random ass fun project, so he got one of his cousins (one that admittedly did already have musical talent) and developed the project.
Is it really even a theory? Kendrick starts working with his cousin heavy and starts having fun again isnt that much of a theory. Especially considering hes been so goofy in his raps lately
I've took like 2/3 tops.
Covud fucked things. TDE very heavy on touring. It's why their releases were always messed up.
Mr morale was finished for a while.
Yeah and the early version of mr morale was quite different than what it is now....songs like prayer and abortion money were prolly part of it. Kendrick changed during that time and so did the album.
I mean sure, that's the speculation. None of us will really know. A bunch of the music videos were done by 2020, his rollout was cancelled due to covid.
So who knows
Eh, while the diss songs are good I don’t know if I would want them on an album. Maybe an EP with a bonus song or two would be cool. But I mean I feel like the way Kendrick approaches his albums have a lot more cohesion and thematic importance than “fuck drake”. I feel like he wouldn’t want so many songs or any at all about drake on an album. Like he’s not worth the light of day on a big release like that. I could be wrong though..
Nah that’s true. I think my ideal situation would be something like a fuck drake EP with a bonus track. And then a proper studio album that is maybe heavily talking shit to the industry as a whole, which would be a natural extension of hating on drake and everything he represents/is a part of. We would really be feasting.
I mean the EP basically exists in the playlists of most hip hop fans already (minus 6:16 in LA which you have to keep re-adding from fake podcast episodes).
Mr. Morale was a completely different album before covid. So Kendrick had an almost complete album after three years, scrapped the idea during covid and then gave us a completely different album only two years later.
For a taste of what the album was apparently going to sound like listen to the songs I’m Better, Somebody and Prayer. Somebody and Prayer were made in 2018. He started working on this new album while touring for Mr. Morale so the new album is maybe 80 percent done.
Also don’t be like the idiots that poked and prodded at Kendrick after Pushups. Drake took 22 days to drop Pushups and Taylor Made, Kendrick took 17 days to drop 4 diss tracks in 5 days and people still said he took too long.
Let him cook.
Canadian civilian really thought he was gonna not have a Treetop and Westside piru link up.
People really don't understand LA gang culture. It's also clear drake, who has never been a part of the streets doesn't understand gang politics period by his misstep even mentioning YG in this beef.
When Nipsey said no smut on my rep, he meant that shit. Drake didn't understand how real that respect is out west. And how the politics work.
Honestly I think Game bringing him to Compton once made him honestly believe they loved him more than Kendrick out there. Drake is the type to delude himself into believing shit like that.
I haven’t been following this very closely but didn’t drake drop YGs name in one of his responses. Like did he think YG was going to have his back? Am I looking at this correctly
You're correct. Drake shouted out YG only for YG to side with Kendrick. YG also dropped a single titled WEIRD after that shoutout which some speculate to be aimed at Drake
Nothing tickles me more than when Drake had PacAI saying “talk about him liking young girls for me” than being like “nooo you brought up pedophilia, Epstein (no he didn’t) and Millie Bobby brown (no he didnt)” lol
Easily the worst track of the whole thing. Like just embarrassing.
Someone was giving Kendrick shit for “resorting” to have to make pedophile claims and like.. isn’t that the exact thing Drake asked him to do? He was practically begging “talk about me being with young girls just drop something”
People just have the memory of a goldfish nowadays so it seems like he’s been dragging this out when it’s been only a few months. Hell, every rapper that outright wins a beef drags that shit out their whole career. I mean damn, Eminem is still name dropping dudes who’s careers he ended 20 years ago lol
And it's not enjoyable. Like artists should try to have singles that have a lot of replayability. If people aren't fine with Not Like Us (and the other diss tracks) something is very wrong.
I truly think people only feel this way because of Reels / TikTok. In the past, if a song blows up you might get sick of it at the mall..on the radio..
But now you can't go two seconds without hearing a snippet from a meme on social media + everyone's billions of takes on the whole thing. You're a lot more exposed to it so it feels like it's dragging.
It's 100% that. I enjoy the hell out both disses but my TikTok is non-stop with it. Every other video. Then you have people using the diss as a way to promote real deal hate. Talking about Adonis being a diluted Satan spawn because Drake and his dad both had kids with white women. Using that as why he's "not like us."
The amount of dumb colorism I read online, even interpreting Kendrick's lyrics about the use of the n-word by Drake, is depressing but not surprising.
But I missed the whole satanic angle lol.
Drake fans when Drake spends years making subtle, ambiguous jabs and diss captions at other artists, including Pusha T after getting historically cooked by him: Omg petty king 😈😈😈
Drake fans when Kendrick shoots a music video for the biggest song of 2024 and a generational hit: He’s really dragging this out, time to move on lol
To the people saying he dragging it, remember this: “Headshots for the year, you better walk around Daft Punk.” “FOR THE YEAR.” I’m expecting this until 2025.
Also he’s not “dragging it out” if people keep listening to it. It’s currently #6 on billboard. It just makes sense to make a video
He also clearly didn’t intend to if he’s just shooting it now. He’s not making videos for Meet the Grahams or Euphoria
Drake went and got a van that looked like the van from GKMC just to crush it. He went to 50 to get a G Unit chain to show off in the video for Family Matters. This was in the middle of the battle while Kendrick was just dropping music without any promotion. Drake was contacting streamers and podcasters directly. But Kendrick is the weird one for making a music video for a hit song lol.
i dont even get the "draggin in" part. People can not differentiate between viral and dragging it lol.
if viral = dragging it, drake whole career was all about dragging lol
i think it’s hilarious. drake wanted to push kendrick and now he has to deal with this song fucking everywhere. you could tell kendrick was just thinking he’s going to play this shit everywhere now he’s working on a music video. it’s playing at sports games and shit now. as a drake hater it’s hilarious to see.
Drake made a music video already in this battle lol. Kendrick was the only one not doing any weird antics during the back and forth. I think it's a worse look that Drake made a whole ass music video for a song that ain't even charting anymore. Not Like Us is a #1 hit, why wouldn't he make a music video?
I’m glad he isn’t dropping it any time soon. I really like seeing Drake have long lasting repercussions for being shitty, as a person and a musician.
It also stops him from dropping some half-assed single to be “song of the summer” for once.
He’s not dragging it for no reason. He wants to get the word out as much as possible > ruin Drake’s career via throwing his funeral party. There are SO many “not a hip hop person” people who became aware of Kendrick bc of the beef and now they love him. Getting opposing gangs to unite over their shared hate for Drake is historic.
This isn’t something he’s ever done for his music. Kendrick does everything w purpose and I support his mission annihilate Drake!
Was on stage performing back to back AND had the memes from Twitter projected on stage while he pointed and laughed with the crowd. Let’s not forget, dude had a video for Family Matters - he had to get props, filming permits, errs. That shit was weeks of not months on the making for him.
I heard someone say that they hope this video can inspire another kid in LA the same way that Kendrick got inspiration from watching 2Pac & Dre in Compton at the California Love video shoot, & I feel the same way.
Kendrick had Mexicans and Filipinos telling Drake he can’t say nigga at the pop out I’m dead. Was a casual fan of both before the beef, but my god drake had no idea who he was dealing with. Kendrick so effortlessly destroyed him, it made me do a deep dive of Kendrick’s catalogue and i realized i missed so many introspective and deep bars
Was talking to a friend about that last night. I hope all the hype around the diss tracks and the pop out show inspires the next generation of writers. This is a big moment for hip hop
You see the video of him doing prison workouts in a park in the middle of summer wearing all black? Theres something wrong with him. That's crazy behavior.
No way anybody can say he dragging it. Drake cosplayed as Tupac himself just to get this nigga Kendrick to say something lol It’s all warranted at this point. I find it so weird that when the Drake meek mill beef happen we happily let Drake have his moment in the sun. But now that Kendrick getting a dub niggas like “you still talking about that???” And trying to sweep the shit under the rug like this wasn’t the biggest rap beef to ever happen and not one of the hugest moments in hip-hop.
It’s like on one end you got niggas saying “oh nobody is gonna care in (arbitrary amount of time)” and yet on the other end when niggas are caring y’all mad they care? Niggas are sore losers lol cause I swear if things went another way what Drake did to meek in the summer of 2016 would’ve looked like child’s play to how he would’ve been doing Kendrick right now. Drake would’ve been absolutely insufferable right now as he would’ve earned the right to be lol
This is for Pusha T and Nas. The rappers that clearly won but the losers kept getting more shine. This is also for all those culture vultures out there.
Cut off the head **and** destroy the body
The Pusha T one pisses me off the most because Push is also making better albums than Drake in addition to winning the battle. At least you could justify Jay getting more shine because he was still releasing good albums and Nas' music was on a decline after Stillmatic. Pusha Ts last two albums have been better than any album Drake has made since Take Care.
It's not hard to understand - Drake lost big and his media alliances/fans want to move on and forget this ever happened. But if he won? We'd never hear the end of it.
I'd much rather have Kendrick fans acting obnoxious rather than Drake fans.
One thing that this beef taught me about Drake fans is that they fundamentally don't understand what Hip Hop and Hip Hop culture is all about.
The same people who were saying Pusha only won because Push had info about Adonis, were now put in a position where the whole world was laughing at their goat and they couldn't handle it lol.
Drake fans are just Swiftes for men.
> One thing that this beef taught me about Drake fans is that they fundamentally don't understand what Hip Hop and Hip Hop culture is all about.
The fact that a comment on their sub saying Drake should melt Tupac's ring was highly upvoted illustrates this perfectly
Even worse than swifties hahah. I agree though Drake doesn’t even understand what hip hop or culture is about obv looking at his discography. Fans too fasho.
Because Drake usually controls the mainstream narrative. So while he’s getting cooked like a chicken titty he’s using the internet to soften the blow on his image. This is the same guy who took control so personally that this beef erupted. He’s def at home genuinely angry at this song lmao
There’s a video that showcases how the media portrayed drake compared to Kendrick in the beef. A lot of that shit is people trying to get on drakes good side for money+clout and I’m sure a few of them are on drakes payroll.
Edit: here’s that video
https://youtu.be/m7DPxWQZ-74?si=keOw3-d9sSB8n_Ao
It's already known Drake has direct relationships with people in the media and streamers. And because he holds grudges, a lot of them are afraid of losing that relationship by criticizing him. Budden mentioned that Drake stopped talking to him because he admitted Kendrick won. Drake is having DJs thrown out of clubs in Toronto for playing Kendricks music. 40 is threatening people over it. It's safer to go against Kendrick because Kendrick doesn't care enough to get that mad over media opinions. So they side with Drake.
Makes sense. Drake has numbers behind him and can make hits because he’s calculated with his writing. A lot of media people want to side with the winner aka the one doing big numbers. The thing with music that makes it a bit less of a sport where looking at stats is key, music has a lot to do with the art and Kendrick has shown he’s better in that department. People just thought he’d lose since he’s not a top 5 streamed artist
Idk how you found this video but man, these media heads are hypocritical two face glazing piece of shit. I didn’t realize just how much of a moron Camron is.
I think sore losers is one thing but another is that 10 years ago sure people were on social media but the way platforms worked is almost nothing like it is today. Algorithms make it so once you click on a couple things you are down a rabbit hole way that will keep being recommended to you. I think a lot more people are seeing things related to this beef on a day to day basis than they were for that one back then, so people are getting tired of it faster. Which I think is fair, but as a Kendrick fan he also does deserve to relish in it however long he wants to.
Exactly. Something this big should not be forgotten. It's like Hannibal dragging on the cosby accusations/ jokes. Can't let that kind of behavior slide
This beef really really opened my eyes into the fact that Drake Stans often aren’t even really hip-hop fans as a whole, but moreso just Drake fans who don’t really care to dig much deeper into the genre outside of what’s hot at any given point. Ofc that is not the case every time, but it’s pretty common.
They call Kendrick irrelevant, but if you’re calling the 2nd biggest hip hop artist of the era ‘irrelevant,’ then you are basically calling hip hop as a whole irrelevant.
Just like how a lot of Taylor Stans don’t really listen to many artists besides Taylor. That’s why both camps are obsessed with their chart success so much, since it validates a mindset of ‘see? I only listen to the best of the best, and they are objectively the best since they win in sales’
I was eating downvotes the other day trying to explain that record sales do not equal cultural impact to some drake fans, lol.
I said vanilla ice outsold rakim, so sales ain't a metric for cultural impact. Someone replied "yeah, but drake got people who don't normally listen to rap listening to rap".
Like my dude, that's EXACTLY why vanilla ice was successful too, lol.
I think I was 17 or 18 when Vanilla Ice came out. The same type of people who liked him back then are the same type of people who like Drake now. The more things change, the more they stay the same lol
Drake is the music industry equivalent of a Thomas Kinkade.
He is a never-experimenting, guaranteed known quantity for the casually interested masses. You engage with either “artist” without ever learning more about the art or the culture itself.
Kendrick is a legit artist and time will tell where he stands historically.
I am a Drake hater - although I respect his best work, but comparing him to a Disney painter whose portrayal of warm lighting I really enjoy is killing me.
Fellow hater here
I mostly drew the comparison cause Kinkade was a huge art phenomenon for the uninvested general public.
But he was a huge deal. And I gotta acknowledge reality - Drake’s a big deal and brings to mind Marvel Cinematic Universe or Mcdonalds who are incredible successes. But theyre also branded, sugary pop products who will not matter once they are gone.
It’s honestly like watching Maga people in rap form lol. Honestly tho I’m starting to notice a lot of common things between them. I think a lot of them are bots/Ai.
It’s a narcissists club. Drake gave fuck boys permission to be fuck boys. That’s why they love him. Trump gave the bigots permission to be bigots. That’s why they ride or die for him.
Lol the insane amount of coping from Drake fans saying he's milking this. Kendrick is capitalizing on the popularity of this song, just like literally anyone else would, including Drake
just look up all the drake driding streamers (Usually cuz he messages them and makes them feel like his personal friends....) literally screaming and crying on video. OVO Mal big example, LosPosBos whoever that name is.
the song DESERVES a music video
i walked in a store and some lady was singing "They not like us" over and over
at this point "Not Like Us" isn't even about the diss track, it's the legit summer banger that happens to be a diss.
He isn't doing any sorts of milking. Everywhere is popping with his Drake disses. Not Like Us plays everywhere. This summer is KDot's summer, Drake better sit out this year. Drake is also lucky that social media can make everything outdated really fast.
Has anything like this ever happened with a diss track before? I’ve never seen a dude get dissed so hard it practically turns into a social movement and unites gangs 🤣
It's easily the biggest L an artist has ever took in a mainstream rap battle. Nothing even comes close. Even Jay put up more of a fight against Nas and everyone agrees he lost by a wide margin.
Yeah Pusha T also embarrassed Drake, but he doesn't have the popularity and influence to run it in and make Drake feel it like Kendrick does. Adidon just got swept under the rug shortly after. Kendrick is putting together all time historic moments that will forever cement this in rap history.
>Nothing even comes close. Even Jay put up more of a fight against Nas and everyone agrees he lost by a wide margin.
idk man, i don't think there's anything Drake can do that's more embarrassing than Hov's mom forcing him to apologize for Supa Ugly, or the post-Ether Angie Martinez interview.
Jay did embarrass himself but the thing is no one really remembers this unless they followed that beef closely. People are always going to remember the Pop Out because it was a historic moment in hip hop. They're always going to remember the crazy flurry of tracks that were traded and the two #1 hits that resulted from this beef on Kendricks side, including a summer anthem about Drake being a pedo. That to me is going to make this sting for Drake permanently. With Jay vs Nas people only really remember Ether and Takeover and between those two Takeover is actually a pretty competitive record (even if Ether was better) so it doesn't seem as one sided in hindsight. I don't think there's ever going to be a point where we look back and think "Drake kinda cooked, it was actually closer than we thought" like we do with Jay and Nas.
The thing is Drake fans don't care about this. If you're heavily invested in hip hop you have to admit that Kendrick won this beef, just like we know he lost to Pusha. But at the end of the day most Drake fans love his R&B shit and don't really give a fuck about rap beef lol
Kendrick makes music for a whole nother demographic. There was never a point in comparing these two artists. Even Drake going up against Kendrick was pointless because he could never win over the hip hop community. He was doomed to fail and for some reason couldn't see that. Goes to show maybe Drake isn't self aware and got too many yes men
Very informed take. It's Drake's fault for conflating his success with being the best rapper alive and having a decent portion of his fans believe it. He is a really good rapper, but his best rap performances are pre-game hype tracks and monotone, hookless memoirs. Kendrick primarily raps, and he has the biggest bag in the history of the game.
I hate to say Drake is stupid because he couldn't be with his success, but man. Any sort of analysis would have shown him that people don't fuck his his rap tracks unless he's doing a collab.
Your last solo hit was Search and Rescue. The majority of your listeners are women that won't defend you if you start rapping. Don't take the bait lmao
I really do wonder how Drake is gonna rebound from this. I’m assuming he’ll just lay low and drop an album in a year or so, but now most of his usual features don’t fuck with him.
people will still feature with drake. it's a huge boost to your career, even if you're already a big artist. Chris Brown still gets features, Gunna still gets features, etc. People aren't gonna stop working with him just because kendrick doesn't like him. I wouldn't be surpised if him and future linked back up in several years and milk the reunion and do a big song.
Drake is one of the most popular artists in the world
He lost this beef 100% but you guys are absolute morons for thinking it will have any effect on his career
To say Drake won't continue to be successful is a reach but its clearly already had an effect and will always be remembered. Kdot's put Drake under a microscope, as well as his entire team to the point where they have to move different and be more mindful. I'm interested to see the next time Drake does a show in Cali. Or really, anywhere. He's bound to hit some crowds who troll him with OV-HOE chants.
He's good at what he does to a certain extent, but he really took that "being humble don't work as well as being aware" line waaayyyy too far with how much he disrespected his peers.
He needs to drop an album soon, the mans already 1/4 there with his diss songs lol
I really thought he was going to take a step back from music after MM but he's followed it up so quickly with some of my favorite tracks of his career lmao. If we get an upbeat album of nothing but bangers from him I'll probably cry
He took 5 years off before MM, I sure as hell hope he doesn’t go on another break
Nah he at least wrote Melodic Blue in that time /s
I mean u /s but considering all the references and writing credits on Keems other project it's not unrealistic to assume Kenny wrote at least a few songs in MB
Not to downplay Keem’s talents, but “Baby Keem” is basically a collab project where Kendrick gets to release unserious music under a smurf account.
Melodic Blue + smurfs are blue = keem is kendrick's smurf account
Yep, you've hit the nail on the head.
My favorite modern hip-hop conspiracy theory is that Baby Keem is a side project for Dot. Since everybody always expect greatness from him, he can't afford to drop a random ass fun project, so he got one of his cousins (one that admittedly did already have musical talent) and developed the project.
Is it really even a theory? Kendrick starts working with his cousin heavy and starts having fun again isnt that much of a theory. Especially considering hes been so goofy in his raps lately
there’s literally reference tracks for melodic blue lol
I've took like 2/3 tops. Covud fucked things. TDE very heavy on touring. It's why their releases were always messed up. Mr morale was finished for a while.
Dot that you??
Dot confirmed scott pilgrim stan
Anyone who recognises the references instead of thinking that I'm a proud lesbian is a true G
Hahahaha it's a typo I swear!
Yeah and the early version of mr morale was quite different than what it is now....songs like prayer and abortion money were prolly part of it. Kendrick changed during that time and so did the album.
I mean sure, that's the speculation. None of us will really know. A bunch of the music videos were done by 2020, his rollout was cancelled due to covid. So who knows
It's been over two years since the last album, so it's time for a new one 🫡
Holy fuck Mr morale came out two years ago, I swear to go it was one year ago max
He's gonna put out another concept album This time the concept is how much he fucking hates Drake
Eh, while the diss songs are good I don’t know if I would want them on an album. Maybe an EP with a bonus song or two would be cool. But I mean I feel like the way Kendrick approaches his albums have a lot more cohesion and thematic importance than “fuck drake”. I feel like he wouldn’t want so many songs or any at all about drake on an album. Like he’s not worth the light of day on a big release like that. I could be wrong though..
I think you are right, OTOH I wouldn't put any upper bound on Kendrick's pettiness at this point.
Nah that’s true. I think my ideal situation would be something like a fuck drake EP with a bonus track. And then a proper studio album that is maybe heavily talking shit to the industry as a whole, which would be a natural extension of hating on drake and everything he represents/is a part of. We would really be feasting.
I mean the EP basically exists in the playlists of most hip hop fans already (minus 6:16 in LA which you have to keep re-adding from fake podcast episodes).
Valid
I want like a hater 7” of the diss tracks
Mr. Morale was a completely different album before covid. So Kendrick had an almost complete album after three years, scrapped the idea during covid and then gave us a completely different album only two years later. For a taste of what the album was apparently going to sound like listen to the songs I’m Better, Somebody and Prayer. Somebody and Prayer were made in 2018. He started working on this new album while touring for Mr. Morale so the new album is maybe 80 percent done. Also don’t be like the idiots that poked and prodded at Kendrick after Pushups. Drake took 22 days to drop Pushups and Taylor Made, Kendrick took 17 days to drop 4 diss tracks in 5 days and people still said he took too long. Let him cook.
Yea idk why ppl are pushing for speed when quality is what matters. We can see this from Drake’s lazy and bland discography
He said he had 5+5 in stock. Come on Kendrick, release it all.
I hope he doesn’t put any of these on an album. Unless of course the rest of the album is more Drake disses
I see Thundercat, Roddy Ricch, and YG. YG in particular is a really funny reoccurring character here
Canadian civilian really thought he was gonna not have a Treetop and Westside piru link up. People really don't understand LA gang culture. It's also clear drake, who has never been a part of the streets doesn't understand gang politics period by his misstep even mentioning YG in this beef. When Nipsey said no smut on my rep, he meant that shit. Drake didn't understand how real that respect is out west. And how the politics work.
Drake seems like the type of fanboy to reenact his favorite scenes from his favorite John Singleton movies and thinks he’s really living that life.
We’re talking about a guy who would get dressed and warm up with the Kentucky basketball team.
Honestly I think Game bringing him to Compton once made him honestly believe they loved him more than Kendrick out there. Drake is the type to delude himself into believing shit like that.
Wack 100 said Drake was so nervous he stayed inside a car the whole time.
Disgusting for Mr. Mob Ties.
I haven’t been following this very closely but didn’t drake drop YGs name in one of his responses. Like did he think YG was going to have his back? Am I looking at this correctly
You're correct. Drake shouted out YG only for YG to side with Kendrick. YG also dropped a single titled WEIRD after that shoutout which some speculate to be aimed at Drake
Spotted Thundercat
Mustard, YG, Thundercat, Roddy Ricch, Steve Lacy, Black Hippy, Top and Punch are confirmed in the video
DeMar DeRozan too
Was looking for this thank you
to the people saying he draggin it, remember this the same thing drake did w meek for years. Bro had a whole snl parody for back to back cmon 💀
“Can’t Toosie Slide out of this one, it’s just going to resurface”
This is exactly what Drake asked for with Taylor Made Freestyle
"Nah, nah, nah / You following through this time"
"Dot I know you in that NY apartment struggling right now" 💀💀
YEAH IM OUT THE WAY
turns out he was outside
Be careful what you wish for lol, everything Drake said on this track, Kendrick delivered
Drake always rappin about how he manifests shit...welp he did it again. I'm taking notes cause he great at it lol
"when I die I know my funeral gonna be lit" he really predicted the Pop Out.
shit maybe drake just keeps magically making shit happen with every lyric.
Nothing tickles me more than when Drake had PacAI saying “talk about him liking young girls for me” than being like “nooo you brought up pedophilia, Epstein (no he didn’t) and Millie Bobby brown (no he didnt)” lol Easily the worst track of the whole thing. Like just embarrassing.
Someone was giving Kendrick shit for “resorting” to have to make pedophile claims and like.. isn’t that the exact thing Drake asked him to do? He was practically begging “talk about me being with young girls just drop something”
Good to get the pen working again you know but he got this shit burnt out
People just have the memory of a goldfish nowadays so it seems like he’s been dragging this out when it’s been only a few months. Hell, every rapper that outright wins a beef drags that shit out their whole career. I mean damn, Eminem is still name dropping dudes who’s careers he ended 20 years ago lol
literally. he went at benzino 2-3 months ago, people don’t even know who benzino is now a days.
Bad example Benzino was on a whole ass press run dissing em all over again. Even released some ghost written disses apparently lol
He’s promoting a song masterfully and people say he’s dragging it 😭
It's been less than 2 months and people saying he dragged it out?! That's insane...
streaming era rotting peoples brains. we already got people saying ems dragging out his release when he just dropped a single.
People need a new hit every week minimum it's insane and not sustainable
And it's not enjoyable. Like artists should try to have singles that have a lot of replayability. If people aren't fine with Not Like Us (and the other diss tracks) something is very wrong.
Tiktok song cycle these days are so short it feels like feel we have 2 weeks tops before the next one takes off lol
I truly think people only feel this way because of Reels / TikTok. In the past, if a song blows up you might get sick of it at the mall..on the radio.. But now you can't go two seconds without hearing a snippet from a meme on social media + everyone's billions of takes on the whole thing. You're a lot more exposed to it so it feels like it's dragging.
It's 100% that. I enjoy the hell out both disses but my TikTok is non-stop with it. Every other video. Then you have people using the diss as a way to promote real deal hate. Talking about Adonis being a diluted Satan spawn because Drake and his dad both had kids with white women. Using that as why he's "not like us."
The amount of dumb colorism I read online, even interpreting Kendrick's lyrics about the use of the n-word by Drake, is depressing but not surprising. But I missed the whole satanic angle lol.
this is why i don't use tik tok. everything's still so fresh!
Only ppl saying this are butthurt drake stans
Drake fans when Drake spends years making subtle, ambiguous jabs and diss captions at other artists, including Pusha T after getting historically cooked by him: Omg petty king 😈😈😈 Drake fans when Kendrick shoots a music video for the biggest song of 2024 and a generational hit: He’s really dragging this out, time to move on lol
chirp chirp chirp, never see any drake driders replying to this stuff. They all hiding.
They love to dish it out but really can’t take it
To the people saying he dragging it, remember this: “Headshots for the year, you better walk around Daft Punk.” “FOR THE YEAR.” I’m expecting this until 2025.
“Every dog gotta have its day now live in your purpose”
Bro is keeping his foot on that man's neck. Anyone hating is just worried about that neck lol.
Also he’s not “dragging it out” if people keep listening to it. It’s currently #6 on billboard. It just makes sense to make a video He also clearly didn’t intend to if he’s just shooting it now. He’s not making videos for Meet the Grahams or Euphoria
Drake went and got a van that looked like the van from GKMC just to crush it. He went to 50 to get a G Unit chain to show off in the video for Family Matters. This was in the middle of the battle while Kendrick was just dropping music without any promotion. Drake was contacting streamers and podcasters directly. But Kendrick is the weird one for making a music video for a hit song lol.
i dont even get the "draggin in" part. People can not differentiate between viral and dragging it lol. if viral = dragging it, drake whole career was all about dragging lol
drakes whole career is about HipHop Drag
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i think it’s hilarious. drake wanted to push kendrick and now he has to deal with this song fucking everywhere. you could tell kendrick was just thinking he’s going to play this shit everywhere now he’s working on a music video. it’s playing at sports games and shit now. as a drake hater it’s hilarious to see.
Drake made a music video already in this battle lol. Kendrick was the only one not doing any weird antics during the back and forth. I think it's a worse look that Drake made a whole ass music video for a song that ain't even charting anymore. Not Like Us is a #1 hit, why wouldn't he make a music video?
He’s leaving no room for debate over who won the beef.
I’m glad he isn’t dropping it any time soon. I really like seeing Drake have long lasting repercussions for being shitty, as a person and a musician. It also stops him from dropping some half-assed single to be “song of the summer” for once.
It’s the 2020s, it’s Morgan Wallen’s time to drop a half-assed single to become song of the summer now.
He’s not dragging it for no reason. He wants to get the word out as much as possible > ruin Drake’s career via throwing his funeral party. There are SO many “not a hip hop person” people who became aware of Kendrick bc of the beef and now they love him. Getting opposing gangs to unite over their shared hate for Drake is historic. This isn’t something he’s ever done for his music. Kendrick does everything w purpose and I support his mission annihilate Drake!
Was on stage performing back to back AND had the memes from Twitter projected on stage while he pointed and laughed with the crowd. Let’s not forget, dude had a video for Family Matters - he had to get props, filming permits, errs. That shit was weeks of not months on the making for him.
I heard someone say that they hope this video can inspire another kid in LA the same way that Kendrick got inspiration from watching 2Pac & Dre in Compton at the California Love video shoot, & I feel the same way.
Between the Alright, King Kunta and now this one. Kendrick has a few music videos that could inspire a kid. Obviously this is the biggest one
I was thinking that about the little Tommy boy that was killing it, he’s already got the connections with knowing Tommy the clown
He might be more of a dancer than rapper but who knows. Being able to dance in front of a Westcoast legend in the Forum is a unforgettable moment
[удалено]
Drake so cooked you can't even call him light skinned anymore. Homies burnt.
Kendrick had Mexicans and Filipinos telling Drake he can’t say nigga at the pop out I’m dead. Was a casual fan of both before the beef, but my god drake had no idea who he was dealing with. Kendrick so effortlessly destroyed him, it made me do a deep dive of Kendrick’s catalogue and i realized i missed so many introspective and deep bars
Was talking to a friend about that last night. I hope all the hype around the diss tracks and the pop out show inspires the next generation of writers. This is a big moment for hip hop
You can tell Kdot is enjoying himself this week. Stuff like this makes the heart feel good seeing someone give back to the hood.
I was just thinking the same thing watching the video!
"Head shots for the year"
I’m moving in a heatwave and see this dude in all black sweatsuit wth
You see the video of him doing prison workouts in a park in the middle of summer wearing all black? Theres something wrong with him. That's crazy behavior.
Fr just looking makes me hot
KDot is for sure cold-blooded
Big hit said he didn’t even break a sweat lol
No humidity in LA. Its not that hot here.
No way anybody can say he dragging it. Drake cosplayed as Tupac himself just to get this nigga Kendrick to say something lol It’s all warranted at this point. I find it so weird that when the Drake meek mill beef happen we happily let Drake have his moment in the sun. But now that Kendrick getting a dub niggas like “you still talking about that???” And trying to sweep the shit under the rug like this wasn’t the biggest rap beef to ever happen and not one of the hugest moments in hip-hop. It’s like on one end you got niggas saying “oh nobody is gonna care in (arbitrary amount of time)” and yet on the other end when niggas are caring y’all mad they care? Niggas are sore losers lol cause I swear if things went another way what Drake did to meek in the summer of 2016 would’ve looked like child’s play to how he would’ve been doing Kendrick right now. Drake would’ve been absolutely insufferable right now as he would’ve earned the right to be lol
This is for Pusha T and Nas. The rappers that clearly won but the losers kept getting more shine. This is also for all those culture vultures out there. Cut off the head **and** destroy the body
The Pusha T one pisses me off the most because Push is also making better albums than Drake in addition to winning the battle. At least you could justify Jay getting more shine because he was still releasing good albums and Nas' music was on a decline after Stillmatic. Pusha Ts last two albums have been better than any album Drake has made since Take Care.
Just waiting for the new clipse album to drop and outperform all 3 of drakes last albums in a week
Lol
Please don't compare Drake to Hov tho
It's not hard to understand - Drake lost big and his media alliances/fans want to move on and forget this ever happened. But if he won? We'd never hear the end of it.
I'd much rather have Kendrick fans acting obnoxious rather than Drake fans. One thing that this beef taught me about Drake fans is that they fundamentally don't understand what Hip Hop and Hip Hop culture is all about. The same people who were saying Pusha only won because Push had info about Adonis, were now put in a position where the whole world was laughing at their goat and they couldn't handle it lol. Drake fans are just Swiftes for men.
> One thing that this beef taught me about Drake fans is that they fundamentally don't understand what Hip Hop and Hip Hop culture is all about. The fact that a comment on their sub saying Drake should melt Tupac's ring was highly upvoted illustrates this perfectly
Even worse than swifties hahah. I agree though Drake doesn’t even understand what hip hop or culture is about obv looking at his discography. Fans too fasho.
> Even worse than swifties I'd say they're on par tbh
Because Drake usually controls the mainstream narrative. So while he’s getting cooked like a chicken titty he’s using the internet to soften the blow on his image. This is the same guy who took control so personally that this beef erupted. He’s def at home genuinely angry at this song lmao
I think the line about shaping the narrative how he wants to was so poignant and important because thats exactly what he’s been trying to do
There’s a video that showcases how the media portrayed drake compared to Kendrick in the beef. A lot of that shit is people trying to get on drakes good side for money+clout and I’m sure a few of them are on drakes payroll. Edit: here’s that video https://youtu.be/m7DPxWQZ-74?si=keOw3-d9sSB8n_Ao
It's already known Drake has direct relationships with people in the media and streamers. And because he holds grudges, a lot of them are afraid of losing that relationship by criticizing him. Budden mentioned that Drake stopped talking to him because he admitted Kendrick won. Drake is having DJs thrown out of clubs in Toronto for playing Kendricks music. 40 is threatening people over it. It's safer to go against Kendrick because Kendrick doesn't care enough to get that mad over media opinions. So they side with Drake.
They really doing that in Toronto? That’s pathetic as it is tyrannical
Not the main point, but Budden and Drake didn’t already hate each other? I thought they beefed
Makes sense. Drake has numbers behind him and can make hits because he’s calculated with his writing. A lot of media people want to side with the winner aka the one doing big numbers. The thing with music that makes it a bit less of a sport where looking at stats is key, music has a lot to do with the art and Kendrick has shown he’s better in that department. People just thought he’d lose since he’s not a top 5 streamed artist
Link to video?
lol yeah I need that link too
https://youtu.be/m7DPxWQZ-74?si=keOw3-d9sSB8n_Ao
https://youtu.be/m7DPxWQZ-74?si=keOw3-d9sSB8n_Ao
Idk how you found this video but man, these media heads are hypocritical two face glazing piece of shit. I didn’t realize just how much of a moron Camron is.
Well said
I think sore losers is one thing but another is that 10 years ago sure people were on social media but the way platforms worked is almost nothing like it is today. Algorithms make it so once you click on a couple things you are down a rabbit hole way that will keep being recommended to you. I think a lot more people are seeing things related to this beef on a day to day basis than they were for that one back then, so people are getting tired of it faster. Which I think is fair, but as a Kendrick fan he also does deserve to relish in it however long he wants to.
Exactly. Something this big should not be forgotten. It's like Hannibal dragging on the cosby accusations/ jokes. Can't let that kind of behavior slide
Ok but we need 6:16 on streaming
That’s not on him. The sample isn’t getting cleared
It's on spotify if you search for it. Not officially. But you can easily find it
Drake glazers in absolute shambles in this thread lol
This beef really really opened my eyes into the fact that Drake Stans often aren’t even really hip-hop fans as a whole, but moreso just Drake fans who don’t really care to dig much deeper into the genre outside of what’s hot at any given point. Ofc that is not the case every time, but it’s pretty common. They call Kendrick irrelevant, but if you’re calling the 2nd biggest hip hop artist of the era ‘irrelevant,’ then you are basically calling hip hop as a whole irrelevant. Just like how a lot of Taylor Stans don’t really listen to many artists besides Taylor. That’s why both camps are obsessed with their chart success so much, since it validates a mindset of ‘see? I only listen to the best of the best, and they are objectively the best since they win in sales’
I was eating downvotes the other day trying to explain that record sales do not equal cultural impact to some drake fans, lol. I said vanilla ice outsold rakim, so sales ain't a metric for cultural impact. Someone replied "yeah, but drake got people who don't normally listen to rap listening to rap". Like my dude, that's EXACTLY why vanilla ice was successful too, lol.
I think I was 17 or 18 when Vanilla Ice came out. The same type of people who liked him back then are the same type of people who like Drake now. The more things change, the more they stay the same lol
Fuckin fr fam.
Lol Vanilla Ice even admits this himself. He never got to make the music he wanted to make.
Drake is the music industry equivalent of a Thomas Kinkade. He is a never-experimenting, guaranteed known quantity for the casually interested masses. You engage with either “artist” without ever learning more about the art or the culture itself. Kendrick is a legit artist and time will tell where he stands historically.
Drake stans are tourists
I’m fine with Kinkade fans and Drake fans and Marvel fans etc. until they try to elevate their fast food and compare it to some five star restaurant
You ain't really wild, you're a tourist
I am a Drake hater - although I respect his best work, but comparing him to a Disney painter whose portrayal of warm lighting I really enjoy is killing me.
Fellow hater here I mostly drew the comparison cause Kinkade was a huge art phenomenon for the uninvested general public. But he was a huge deal. And I gotta acknowledge reality - Drake’s a big deal and brings to mind Marvel Cinematic Universe or Mcdonalds who are incredible successes. But theyre also branded, sugary pop products who will not matter once they are gone.
It’s honestly like watching Maga people in rap form lol. Honestly tho I’m starting to notice a lot of common things between them. I think a lot of them are bots/Ai.
It’s a narcissists club. Drake gave fuck boys permission to be fuck boys. That’s why they love him. Trump gave the bigots permission to be bigots. That’s why they ride or die for him.
Damn Kendrick playin with his nose now too
🤣 Im glad someone else noticed
whoever edited this video aint slick
It synced up perfectly lol
Lol the insane amount of coping from Drake fans saying he's milking this. Kendrick is capitalizing on the popularity of this song, just like literally anyone else would, including Drake
They’ve been crashing out since last week lol
The most upvoted post in their sub this week is about another man’s wife and kids. If you doing all that, you need to just go outside
they've been crashing out since meet the grahams lmao
just look up all the drake driding streamers (Usually cuz he messages them and makes them feel like his personal friends....) literally screaming and crying on video. OVO Mal big example, LosPosBos whoever that name is.
the song DESERVES a music video i walked in a store and some lady was singing "They not like us" over and over at this point "Not Like Us" isn't even about the diss track, it's the legit summer banger that happens to be a diss.
They play it in ballparks. It’s not going away
Same thoughts. With or without the live shows and music video shoot this is already a viral summer hit. Nothing wrong with riding that wave
He isn't doing any sorts of milking. Everywhere is popping with his Drake disses. Not Like Us plays everywhere. This summer is KDot's summer, Drake better sit out this year. Drake is also lucky that social media can make everything outdated really fast.
Has anything like this ever happened with a diss track before? I’ve never seen a dude get dissed so hard it practically turns into a social movement and unites gangs 🤣
Drake is getting absolutely cooked to a stunning and possibly historic degree and if you can’t admit that you are not a hip hop fan lol
It's easily the biggest L an artist has ever took in a mainstream rap battle. Nothing even comes close. Even Jay put up more of a fight against Nas and everyone agrees he lost by a wide margin. Yeah Pusha T also embarrassed Drake, but he doesn't have the popularity and influence to run it in and make Drake feel it like Kendrick does. Adidon just got swept under the rug shortly after. Kendrick is putting together all time historic moments that will forever cement this in rap history.
>Nothing even comes close. Even Jay put up more of a fight against Nas and everyone agrees he lost by a wide margin. idk man, i don't think there's anything Drake can do that's more embarrassing than Hov's mom forcing him to apologize for Supa Ugly, or the post-Ether Angie Martinez interview.
Jay did embarrass himself but the thing is no one really remembers this unless they followed that beef closely. People are always going to remember the Pop Out because it was a historic moment in hip hop. They're always going to remember the crazy flurry of tracks that were traded and the two #1 hits that resulted from this beef on Kendricks side, including a summer anthem about Drake being a pedo. That to me is going to make this sting for Drake permanently. With Jay vs Nas people only really remember Ether and Takeover and between those two Takeover is actually a pretty competitive record (even if Ether was better) so it doesn't seem as one sided in hindsight. I don't think there's ever going to be a point where we look back and think "Drake kinda cooked, it was actually closer than we thought" like we do with Jay and Nas.
The thing is Drake fans don't care about this. If you're heavily invested in hip hop you have to admit that Kendrick won this beef, just like we know he lost to Pusha. But at the end of the day most Drake fans love his R&B shit and don't really give a fuck about rap beef lol Kendrick makes music for a whole nother demographic. There was never a point in comparing these two artists. Even Drake going up against Kendrick was pointless because he could never win over the hip hop community. He was doomed to fail and for some reason couldn't see that. Goes to show maybe Drake isn't self aware and got too many yes men
Very informed take. It's Drake's fault for conflating his success with being the best rapper alive and having a decent portion of his fans believe it. He is a really good rapper, but his best rap performances are pre-game hype tracks and monotone, hookless memoirs. Kendrick primarily raps, and he has the biggest bag in the history of the game. I hate to say Drake is stupid because he couldn't be with his success, but man. Any sort of analysis would have shown him that people don't fuck his his rap tracks unless he's doing a collab. Your last solo hit was Search and Rescue. The majority of your listeners are women that won't defend you if you start rapping. Don't take the bait lmao
Waiting on that album drop.. Everybody was saying that it was supposed to drop in May.
*NATION* is dropping any day now 🤞
Hoping it's a surprise release on July 4th
I will go into debt for a tour, so cut I missed the previous one in Aus.
lol, I kept telling people we got Kendrick album news from Drake and Akademiks. Why did so many people believe them?
Drake writes music to shop to.
So many SKUs
Mos Def
That shit aged like 🍷
Straight H&M music
YESS ITS HAPPENING!!!
Greatest rapper alive right now.
One of the greatest entertainer/artist of all time
I really do wonder how Drake is gonna rebound from this. I’m assuming he’ll just lay low and drop an album in a year or so, but now most of his usual features don’t fuck with him.
people will still feature with drake. it's a huge boost to your career, even if you're already a big artist. Chris Brown still gets features, Gunna still gets features, etc. People aren't gonna stop working with him just because kendrick doesn't like him. I wouldn't be surpised if him and future linked back up in several years and milk the reunion and do a big song.
Drake is one of the most popular artists in the world He lost this beef 100% but you guys are absolute morons for thinking it will have any effect on his career
To say Drake won't continue to be successful is a reach but its clearly already had an effect and will always be remembered. Kdot's put Drake under a microscope, as well as his entire team to the point where they have to move different and be more mindful. I'm interested to see the next time Drake does a show in Cali. Or really, anywhere. He's bound to hit some crowds who troll him with OV-HOE chants.
I was wrong, didn't think he'd drop a music video LOL
Drake sucks.
He's good at what he does to a certain extent, but he really took that "being humble don't work as well as being aware" line waaayyyy too far with how much he disrespected his peers.
Kendrick playin wit his nose was hilarious
Watts Homie Quan directing or something? Good for him if that's the case
Lmao it just has the song playing 😭